Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.